[CentOS] Hard drive errors
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Mon Sep 25 21:16:45 UTC 2006
On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 09:08 -0400, Lamar Owen wrote:
> Power supply issues can do real damage to the drives, as well. I had a pair
> of 250GB drives that have hard errorred sectors thanks to a power
> supply 'glitching' on me. The drives still work fine otherwise, but they
> have several dozen sectors each that will never be usable.
Most drive manufacturers have a diagnostic/repair utility that have
a fair chance of fixing that sort of problem. Unfortunately they
tend to only run under windows.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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